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...comb player. The sound of McKenzie's melodic bzzz drifted off in the '30s, but his name is now revered in Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard students crowd into the Club 47 to hear the music of McKenzie's spiritual heirs: Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band. On washtub, kazoo, stovepipe, scrub board and comb, Kweskin's band plays old-fashioned "good time" music that folk faddists have pronounced the most culturally significant phenomenon since Joan Baez...
...Fatter Sound. Jug music got started as "spasm" jazz bands played by Negroes who lacked the price of honest-to-God instruments, and now, after 30 years' obscurity, it has returned as a rebellion against the formality of Bluegrass-which itself was exhumed only two or three years ago. Both Kweskin's band and New York's Even Dozen Jug Band have highly successful LPs on the market, and the demand for kazoos in Greenwich Village, where Kweskin's group played at the Bitter End, is as great as it is in Boston. Kweskin...
Pucker Up & Blow. The Jug Band's anchor man is Fritz Richmond, 24, a shaggy, red-haired bean pole who plays washtub, stovepipe and jug. He is so immersed in washtub playing that once, while in the Army, he got carried away and played a Quonset hut by nailing the door shut, stringing a wire from the doorknob to the tip of a 10-ft. pole and strumming. "It made a deep, very deep sound," he says, lost in wonder at the effect. His present instrument is a $2.49 Sears, Roebuck washtub, but metal fatigue forces...
...dozen musicians including concert star Joan Baez, the Charles River Valley Boys, and the Jim Keveskin Jug Band had attracted a quiet crowd of some 150 sunbathers when the MDC officers drove up and scattered them. Miss Baez had appeared at the Donnelly Memorial Theatre Saturday night...
Last week Gus was singing downtown again, this time in a recording studio. In his rich and resonant voice, he sang blues to his own full-chord banjo accompaniment while a friend kept time on the washboard and somebody else played the musical jug. Gus led the group through the old tunes-Long John Booker, The Chicken, Old Blue, and his own Walk Right...